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                  <p class="p_Heading1"><span class="f_Heading1">Create Model Document</span></p>



  
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                <p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">You can create as many Model Document elements as are necessary to provide the sections of your generated document (under a Master Document) or to provide the independent documents you require.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">To create a Model Document element, follow the steps below:</span></p>
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<li value=1><span class="f_NumberedList">Open the <a href="create_master_document.htm">Master Document child diagram</a> or (if you are creating independent Model Documents) create a new diagram.</span></li>
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<td width="952" bgcolor="#f7f7ff" style="width:952px; background-color:#f7f7ff;"><p class="p_TiporNoteText"><span class="f_TiporNoteText">The new diagram can live anywhere outside the packages you are adding to the document; you could create a Class diagram called Documentation within a specific Documentation package, and use this to hold the independent Model Document elements for your virtual documents.</span></p>
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<li value=2><span class="f_NumberedList">From the</span><span class="f_UIControl"> Documentation</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> page of the Enterprise Architect UML </span><span class="f_UIControl">Toolbox</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> (</span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">More Tools | Documentation</span><span class="f_NumberedList">) drag the </span><span class="f_NumberedList" style="font-style: italic;">Model Document</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> icon onto the diagram to create a new Model Document element. Give the element an appropriate name: for example, if the documentation is relevant to the shopping cart requirements of a model, you could call it </span><span class="f_NumberedList" style="font-style: italic;">ShoppingCartReqDocumentation</span><span class="f_NumberedList">. Click on the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">OK</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> button.</span></li>
<li value=3><span class="f_NumberedList">Open the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Tagged Values</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> window (</span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">View | Tagged Values</span><span class="f_NumberedList">) and click on the Model Document element. The </span><span class="f_NumberedList" style="font-style: italic;">RTFTemplate, SearchName </span><span class="f_NumberedList">and</span><span class="f_NumberedList" style="font-style: italic;"> SearchValue</span><span class="f_NumberedList">Tagged Values display in the window.</span></li>
<li value=4><span class="f_NumberedList">Click on the drop-down arrow to the right of the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">RTFTemplate</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> field, and click on the template to use for this Model Document.</span></li>
<li value=5><span class="f_NumberedList">If you are creating a list of packages for the Model Document, go now to </span><span class="f_BodyText"><a href="addpackagestoyourdocumentobjec.htm">Add Packages to Model Document</a>. Otherwise, </span><span class="f_NumberedList">click on the drop-down arrow to the right of the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">SearchName</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> field, and click on the model </span><span class="f_NumberedList">search type to populate this Model Document.</span><br>
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<img src="modeldoctv.png" width="490" height="373" border="0" alt="ModelDocTV"><br>
<span class="f_NumberedList">&nbsp;</span></li>
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<li><span class="f_TiporNoteText">Diagram Searches are not supported.</span></li>
<li><span class="f_TiporNoteText">Custom SQL searches are supported if they are returning elements. The <a href="creating_filters.htm">SQL must include</a> </span><span class="f_TiporNoteText" style="font-style: italic;">ea_guid AS CLASSGUID </span><span class="f_TiporNoteText">and the </span><span class="f_TiporNoteText" style="font-style: italic;">object type</span><span class="f_TiporNoteText">.</span></li>
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<li value=6><span class="f_NumberedList">If necessary, type a search term in the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">SearchValue</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> field.</span></li>
<li value=7><span class="f_NumberedList">Create further Model Document elements as required.</span></li>
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<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Your Model Document element appears in the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Project Browser</span><span class="f_BodyText"> with a Class icon, as shown below:</span></p>
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<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">When you have created all the required Model Document elements, see the <a href="rearrangethepackageorder.htm">Document Order</a> topic.</span></p>




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